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From: "Greg Albrecht" <gregoryba@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Grep a file
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this might work:

grep -v '^\;' originalfile > newfile

-g

On 17/01/07, Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net> wrote:
> I have a config file that uses  ; as a comment character.
> Unfortunately there are soooooooo many comments I can't read the
> options that have been enabled.
>
> Can I use grep or another tool to pull all the lines in this file
> that do not start with the ; and place them into another file so I
> can actually read what this file is doing?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Joshua Lewis
> joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net
>
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